Undead creatures will often be depicted as having glowing eyes, usually without any explanation. Then again, in magic-based undead this might either be the glow of the animating magic or magical eyes, created specifically to allow undead to see posthumously. Ones that do not actually have eyes, like reanimated skeletons and incorporeal ghosts, will often have glowing lights where the eyes would be. Occasionally, it will be twin ghost-fires burning in the sockets. It is by no means a universal trait of undead. Should Undeath end and the glow fade, it's Eye Lights Out.

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Anime & Manga

All vampires and ghouls in HellsingOVAs have eyes that glow either occasionally or constantly depending on the character. Alucard, the protagonist is especially prone of this, and his eyes often seem like lamps in dark conditions. The vampire eyes glow red or blue, while the ghouls settle for purple.

In Fullmetal Alchemist, Alphonse is a character whose soul has been bonded to an empty suit of armor, yet the eye holes in the suit glow a pinkish color. Later the brothers encounter others of the same condition who also have glowing eyes.

This seems to be for the audience's benefit, as if they are "asleep", the characters don't notice.

Berserk: Both the Skull Knight and his ghastly horse are creatures of the undead, with dark, cavernous eye sockets lit by glowing eyes. The skeletons animated by the evil spirits attracted to Guts' Brand in volume 1 are the same way.

The Helghast (plural) in the Lone Wolf gamebook series, as shown with the image above. Note that they are shapeshifters, and thus their eyes don't glow while in human form, as it would give them away. (The glow may be a side effect of the psychic attack that a Helghast is trying to melt your brain with...) Most other undead in the series avert this. The skeletal Vordaks still have human eyeballs, while some zombies either have eyes or just rotting eye sockets.

Literature

In Stephen King's It, the eponymous monster's true form glows with "the deadlights", which can be a deadly Brown Note when viewed directly.

Ghost dogs with glowing eyes attack a gangster's former home every other night in the Nancy Drew novel Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake.

In the Goosebumps book The Ghost Next Door, Danny's ghost in the Shadow World chases Hannah, red eyes glowing.

Discworld's Death, only with blue lights. They turned red once in Mort when he was enraged.

The Greater Dead in Garth Nix's Old Kingdom trilogy have fiery pits for eyes; some of the more powerful Lesser Dead demonstrate this as well. Necromancers have a lesser version of this (physical eyes are still there, but they're described as burning), depending on how long they've been using Free Magic.

The Ringwraiths are sometimes depicted with eyelights, which "glow with a hellish fire" when they're angry.

The Barrow-wights had the same effect. Rather chilling, since it's the only feature Frodo's actually able to make out.

Bob the Skull in The Dresden Files. More precisely, Bob is the glowing eyelights — he's an air spirit that looks like a cloud of glimmering motes that happens to live in a skull, rather than an undead being.

In The Laundry Files by Charles Stross, infection by one of the gibbering extradimensional horrors the Laundry fights against is marked by eyes full of what appear to be glowing, seething worms.

In Simon R. Green's Nightside series, Merlin Satanspawn has empty eye sockets filled with flames. He's the Devil's son, and every time these eyes are mentioned it's commented that "he has his father's eyes". He's first met as an undead, but when his live version is encountered (while time traveling to the era of Arthurian Legend in Paths Not Taken) he already has the freaky flaming eye-sockets.

In A Song of Ice and Fire, people killed by the Others have their eyes turned bright blue, which then glow when they're active in undeath. People resurrected by the magic of R'hllor, though not conventionally undead, have a red glow in their eyes at times.

The title Jedi ghost of Galaxy of Fear: Ghost of the Jedi first appears, when Tash can see him clearly, with empty eyes. As she talks to him and needs his help a flicker of light comes to them, strengthening to a steady glow.

Music

Eddie, the undead mascot of british heavy metal band Iron Maiden, has semi-skeletal facial features and empty eye sockets with this trope in full display. Sometimes his eyelights are flames, sometimes lightning, occasionally something else, but they're present in almost every appearance of the character from album art to merchandise to the huge animatronic stage puppets appearing on tour.

Music Videos

The zombie gorillas in the video for the Gorillaz song "Clint Eastwood" have glowing red eyelights and apparently no eyeballs (as can be seen when one of them disintegrates). They otherwise look just like living gorillas, except for having blue fur for some reason.

The eyes of the undead troops in the video for Raubtier's Achtung Panzer glow red as they rise, as do those of the zombie tankers. They seem to glow the same colour as the tanks' headlamps.

Myths & Religion

The jikininki of Japanese folklore, who are said to be the ghosts of self-centered or impious people, have glowing eyes.

Pinballs

Bone Busters has One-Eye, a disembodied skull who taunts the player, and his one remaining eyeball glows.

Liches have "pinpoints of light" in their empty eye sockets and archliches (non-evil variant lich) have twinkling lights. Alhoon (illithid liches), however, look much like in life, but with dried skin.

A subversion with Mystara's "dusanu": this monster looks like a typical rotting skeleton... but in fact it isn't undead but a fungal colony that had taken over a corpse. The haunting blue lights coming from its eyes sockets are in fact caused by the waste fumes of the fungus.

In Vampire: The Masquerade, one of the early powers vampires can gain in the Protean (shapeshifting) discipline allows them to see in the dark while making their eyes glow red.

Warhammer: According to the associated literature (such as Nagash The Sorcerer), animated skeletons have this.

Trauma Towers, a funhouse based at Pleasure Beach Blackpool in England, contains vampire children with glowing eyes.

Disneyland's The Haunted Mansion used to have "Emily", the ghost bride. Until somewhere in the 80's, all the versions of the character had glowing light-yellow eyes blazing through the darkness of the haunted attic, paired with a glowing, beating red heart. The 70's Bride's face was actually pitch black with only the two glowing eyes. However, the later, more realistic design had more normal-looking eyes (except in Tokyo Disneyland, where the Bride's eyes, though with a visible pupil, still glow a bit). The current bride ghost, Constance, who replaced Emily, does not glow at all.

Other, less notable ghost's eyes also glow, most notably some shrouded spooks visible in the Crypts of the Graveyard Jamboree scene.

Video Games

All the infected in Left 4 Dead. This is clearest in the case of the Witch.

The Witch is the only one to technically have glowing eyes. All the others simply have untextured eyes, leaving blank and white.

Kingfin in Super Mario Galaxy, although surprisingly not the standard undead enemies. Said boss also has an even more extreme case of this, because the eyes seem to shoot light beams in the direction it's looking or something.◊

Raziel in Legacy of Kain, in cutscenes. It's not properly rendered ingame until Defiance.

Most of the Forsaken undead have this, though there are some Forsaken facial textures that don't include glowing eyes. They have empty eyesockets instead.

Also undead of the Scourge and the Lich King as shown in the trailer/opening cinematic for Wrath of the Lich King. The blue glow isn't limited to their eyes, but also appears elsewhere inside the skeletal undead.

And as former members of the Scourge, Death Knights of all races. If the regular members of the race already have glowing eyes (such as night elves), then it's more visibly pronounced for death knights. Also the color will change, as the night elves' normal yellow and blood elves' normal green will be switched to the same blue as all others.

Lanaryu, from Skyward Sword. When Link meets him in the present time, he's little more than a decaying skull surrounded by the rotting rather, rusting remains of his helpers. Attempts to communicate with him result in his empty sockets lighting with a sickly yellow. You get the chance to change that, however.

The Stalfos and Staldra enemies also have glowing eyes. When a Staldra's eyes turn from blue to red, it's time to get your shield ready.

All of the zombies in Call of Duty: Zombies have yellow-orange lights in their eye sockets. Zombie!George Romero eyes glow when he's in berserk mode.

All ways of becoming a husk involved dying, or at least ceasing to be a living human, in Mass Effect, so they probably qualify.

Fallout 4's feral ghouls, though more Technically Living Zombie than truly undead, have glowing yellow eyes that make them especially creepy in dimly lit areas and the first strain of their species with this particular trait in the entire Fallout universe.

All zombie-esques with intelligence in Sonny, the free online Flash RPG series.

Most Undead characters in Dark Soulslook perfectly normal, but those that have given up their humanity and turned Hollow have emaciated faces and glowing red eyes.

The indie horror game Black Rose has a ghost that stalks you at three different points throughout the game. A note found in the cellar tells the player not to look into the eyes. Looking into the ghost's eyes for too long will get you killed.

As an ambulatory skeleton, Sans of Undertale has these. This actually gives him a more friendly and cheerful appearance, because he looks downright unsettling without them. Oddly, his brother Papyrus does not have these, mostly having empty but very expressive eye sockets with the occasional expression revealing he has eyeballs. The morose ghost Napstablook also has these.

Quest for Glory I: The gatekeeper for Baba Yaga's hut is a talking skull who complains that he lacks these. The other skulls on the fence were given glowing gems, and he was left out. The hero must find a gem for him before the gate will open. Despite not having any particular powers mentioned other than glowing, the gem does allow the skull to see.

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